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Professor Paul Chou Collection

Paul Chou (1914-2000), chemist, teacher, and book collector, was born in Qingdao, educated at Peking University, and had a life-long love of Chinese literature and history. His collection of 2,455 volumes was given to the UCR Library in 2004 by his daughter, Huiping Cheng.

Highlights of the collection:

Si Ku Quan Shu 景印文淵閣四庫全書 (Complete Collection of Four Literary Branches), compiled between 1773 and 1782, in 1,501 volumes. Also available online <http://scotty.ucr.edu/record=b3683320~S5>

Wan Wei Bie Cang 宛委別藏 / (清) 阮元 輯 (Another Collection from Wan Wei), in 120 volumes, supplementing Si Ku Quan Shu, compiled between 1821 and 1850. There are no more than five copies of this set in the United States